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Show If cHire Handicapped9 week 1 placement are among services the Foundation can provide. He works closely with Becky Wiggill at Clearfield Job Service in working to land appropriate jobs for trained handicapped individuals. The vast resources of Job Service Ser-vice are put to work in locatingjob leads to providing training sessions, ses-sions, Mr. Glade explains. "We can gear our services to people with special needs, such as dyxlex-ics. dyxlex-ics. They must be helped to fill our forms, etc. We teach interviewing skills and stress social understand-ine understand-ine to be successful on the job." STRESSING those helped are "job ready" when referred to pros pective employers, he stresses the agency doesn't want employers to hire the handicapped to fill a quota or for some other reason. "We just want them (Employers) to be sensitive sensi-tive to the needs (of handicapped) and provide the opportunity because they have the talent" necessary to fill a job. Often the handicapped possess every bit as much ability as someone some-one else but aren't given the opportunity oppor-tunity to prove themselves. EMPLOYERS are asked to consider con-sider handicapped applicants where a "reasonable" accommodation accommo-dation can be made to employ that person, Mr. Glade stresses. "We don't expect them to refurbish an D, office to accommodate a wheel-. 41 chair," for example, he explains. "Vtht The "handicapped" covers a "Viih ; broad spectrum, Mrs. Wiggill ! ..is te. notes, with better than one m20 esi listed oh Job Service files meeting ' .'Jed that category. CLIENTS are referred from the State Division of Rehabilitation Services and come out of programs Hfc as varied as Pioneer Adult Rehabi- 'vr litation Center to the Davis Area S; Vocational Center, Mr. Glade Xsho a says. Federal tax assistance is also ". 7; n0 te often available to employers, he i WS adds. Further information is avail- ."ye-re able by calling 773-8380. By TOM BUSSELBERG Reflex Journal Editor HAFB - Roy Don Edwards could tell you a lot about the F-16. HE KNOWS about it from the bearings to the cockpit and all of the hundreds of parts in between. No, Roy Don's never flown one, but he's proud of the job he does as a support specialist for nearly 2,000 F-16s under HAFB's direction. Under different circumstances, Roy Don might have found himself in the cockpit. Such was not to beat be-at least not vet. AS FATE would have it, the youthful, broad shouldred Lyman, Utah native would suffer nerve damage from a diving accident at Lake Powell in 1972. That left him partially paralyzed. Confined to a wheelchair, he lost most of the strength in his arms. It took him nearly three-quarters of a year to regain the ability to feed himself, with his arm in a sling, he recalls. SEVERAL years of rehabilitation rehabilita-tion followed, with Roy Don emphasizing "good family" support sup-port as a backbone at the time. Four years later, he started school at Dixie College in St. George, where he met Julie Fitzgerald, three years later. They're now proud parents of a 3-year-old Brandon, Bran-don, the joy of their lives. "Behind someone who wants to be successful, if you don't have a good wife, or someone who is willing will-ing to take care of you" it can be impossible, Roy Don says. His wife not only "does everything for him" but serves as a ULSTA volunteer to the Help Find Employment Em-ployment For the Handicapped. There are agencies ready and willing will-ing to help the handicapped. This week is being observed as "Hire the Handicapped Week." WHILE MANY agencies are geared to serve the handicapped, two non-profit groups that join hands in "doing their bit" arc the Maurice Warshaw Foundation and Utah Job Service. Gerald Glade, a retired navy flyer who has been stationed from Japan to Antartica, represents the Foundation, dividing his time between be-tween the Clearfield and Ogden Job Service offices. "We're on the job to build employment opportunities opportu-nities for the handicapped," he says, "to make sure they have opportunities." INTERVIEWING, counseling, training, job development and |